Reviews: Kuhn, Sarah

Heroine Worship —
Sarah Kuhn
Heroine Complex, book 2

In
Heroine
Complex (
reviewed
here
)
superheroes Annie “Aveda Jupiter” Chang and Evie “No Cool
Superhero Name” Tanaka vanquished the Demon Queen and closed a gate
to the Otherworld. Since the Demon Queen’s shenanigans were the
primary source of superhero-level threats to San Francisco, life has
been pretty quiet since that battle.

That
is a big problem for Aveda, because her self-image is tied up in
being San Francisco’s premier saviour. She cannot save that which
is not being threatened. Even if a threat did materialize, she’d
have to share the spotlight with Evie, and Evie’s recently revealed
pyrokinesis is much flashier than Aveda’s acrobatic martial arts.
Not that Aveda is jealous of Evie, exactly; she’s just used to
having the spotlight.

Many
superheroes in Aveda’s position would resort to creating a robotic
villain only they can
defeat
1. Happily for Aveda, fate is going to
hand her a challenge worthy of her talents.

Heroine Complex —
Sarah Kuhn
Heroine Complex, book 1

Heroine
Complex
is Sarah Kuhn’s debut novel.

An
army of demons invaded San Francisco, but turned out to be somewhat
fragile; they all died almost as soon as they arrived in our
dimension (shades of H. G. Wells
The
War of the Worlds
).
Ever since the failed invasion, San Francisco has endured several
small scale incursions … but those attacks are nothing that
dedicated volunteers cannot handle.